71 lines
2.5 KiB
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71 lines
2.5 KiB
Groff
.\" Copyright (c) 1997 David Nugent <davidn@blaze.net.au>
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.\" All rights reserved.
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.\"
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.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
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.\" modification, is permitted provided that the following conditions
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.\" are met:
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.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
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.\" notice immediately at the beginning of the file, without modification,
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.\" this list of conditions, and the following disclaimer.
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.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
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.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
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.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
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.\" 3. This work was done expressly for inclusion into FreeBSD. Other use
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.\" is permitted provided this notation is included.
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.\" 4. Absolutely no warranty of function or purpose is made by the author
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.\" David Nugent.
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.\" 5. Modifications may be freely made to this file providing the above
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.\" conditions are met.
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.\"
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.\" $Id: _secure_path.3,v 1.1 1997/05/10 18:55:37 davidn Exp $
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.\"
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.Dd May 2, 1997
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.Os FreeBSD
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.Dt _SECURE_PATH 3
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm _secure_path
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.Nd determine if a file appears to be secure
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Fd #include <sys/types.h>
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.Fd #include <libutil.h>
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.Ft int
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.Fn _secure_path "const char *path" "uid_t uid" "gid_t gid"
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.Pp
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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This function does some basic security checking on a given path.
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It is intended to be used by processes running with root privileges
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in order to decide whether or not to trust the contents of a given
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file.
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It uses a method often used to detect system compromise.
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.Pp
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A file is considered 'secure' if it meets the following conditions:
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.Bl -enum
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.It
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The file exists, and is a regular file (not a symlink, device
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special or named pipe, etc.),
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.It
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Is not world writable.
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.It
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Is owned by the given uid or uid 0, if uid is not -1,
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.It
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Is not group wriable or it has group ownership by the given
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gid, if gid is not -1.
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.El
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.Sh RETURN VALUES
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This function returns zero if the file exists and may be
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considered secure, -2 if the file does not exist, and
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-1 otherwise to indicate a security failure.
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.Xr syslog 3 ,
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is used to log any failure of this function, including the
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reason, at LOG_ERR priority.
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.Sh BUGS
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The checks carried out are rudamentary and no attempt is made
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to eliminate race conditions between use of this function and
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access to the file referenced.
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr lstat 3 ,
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.Xr syslog 3 .
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.Sh HISTORY
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Code from which this function was derived was contributed to the
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FreeBSD project by Berkeley Software Design, Inc.
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